XPost: alt.comp.freeware, alt.politics.scorched-earth, uk.politics.misc
XPost: uk.legal, alt.politics.uk
From: imvalid@somewear.com
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 22:35:11 -0000, Shadow wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 22:14:07 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:19:23 -0000, Shadow wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:48:20 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I set up a website with a name almost the same as a bank, then get
people to log into it, I am sort of hacking.
>>>
>>> If you use the bank's interface, you would be committing a
>>> crime, not "sort of hacking".
>>> OTOH, if you just have only two fields on a totally unrelated
>>> page, where the word "bank" was never mentioned asking for:
>>>
>>> Account Number:
>>> Password:
>>>
>>> And people actually enter their data, then you deserve to have
>>> their cash. They GAVE it to you.
>>> PS The post you replied to was a troll done by one of the
>>> STALKERS many persona. He had a victim help him, of course. He never
>>> does anything like that personally.
>>> []'s
>>
>> I meant I copied the bank's interface and made a page that looked the same.
>> I'm stealing passwords and using them to access accounts. That's hacking.
>
> No, hacking is taking your radio apart to figure out how it
> works. Or your fishing reel. I did that once, and it never worked
> again, though I have a lot of spare parts now.
>
> Stealing people's money through fraud has NOTHING to do with
> hacking. Most thieves couldn't hack themselves out of a wet paper bag.
> They convince other people to do it for them.
Well I call it hacking. It's a question of perspective, opinion, and quantity.
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